Why does the envelope-page show different content from just clicking on it to picking Today afterwards? Does showing the page with no date range just pick "whatever has happened since your last viewing of this page"?

I'm reviving this thread because I'm surprised there's no badge offered for this. Looking for duplicates requires more effort than other types of close vote and we're always saying that badges should be encouraging positive behaviour on the sites.
I propose the following badges:
Seeker - Fi...

the idea is that anonymous joe blow will find a page from google, and go ... oops its wrong, without logging in he will submit an improvement and then we will have some sort of game to deal with the stuff ...

that involves a bonus of sorts for dealing with the backlog and a bonus for submitting the change

Usurper
Posted an answer 6 months after an accepted one, resulting in the question owner switching to yours.
Encourages posting better solutions when you come across old accepted answers. Adjust time-scale to suit.

@YiJiang: It's more to do with the fact that as time passes by, information can become incorrect. When coming across an old solution that is out of date because there's a better method, it's important to fix that information ASAP because that old post might have a lot of links to it.

I have just recently started to study Ruby, and in lieu of Jeff's advice over the weekend...
Stop theorizing.
Write lots of software.
Learn from your mistakes.
...I was interested in honing my skills while helping out the Open Source Community the process so I thought I'd ask if anyo...

Microsoft now ships an official URL Rewriting Module for IIS: http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite
It supports most types of rewriting including setting server variables and wildcards.
It also will exist on all Azure web instances out of the box.

Because this is the third time this has happened, I think I should post a question about it. Look at the screenshot above (click on it for the full size version).
Basically, O_o.
It occurs when I visit a question. It happens incredibly rarely, maybe once every, I dunno, thousand visits to t...

depends on the context! if i'm sitting down at the computer now i'd say g'morning as that's my timezone, but if i'd been here and someone from europe joins (and i know that's where they are) i'd say g'afternoon <europe user>*

This EUALA grants you a simple license to use the Software to play the Game. You have no rights to or in the Game or its content. You expressly acknowledge that all characters created and all virtual objects or attributes acquired and developed during Game play, if any, are an integral part of the Game and strictly remain the property of EA. You further acknowledge that the Software contains, without limitation, the following: (i) graphics, sound effects, music, visual animations and text (hereafter referred to as "Content") to which you have no property rights and no intellectual prop…

"Oh, and I may change this legalese at will at any time in any way I fancy and you're totally cool with that. I don't even have to tell you. Oh, and when I do I won't actually tell you what has changed, I hope you kept a copy of the previous EULA."

@Fosco Do you seriously intend to play with XMPP at any point in the future? Only reason I ask is because I lowered client security for you, and if you don't really want to mess around I was going to raise it back up

@radp All I did was force connections to be encrypted so any of my users who don't know how to configure their clients can not connect unless the connections are encrypted. We use Jabber for sending secure info like passwords

Some publishing house offered a new car to the first person who mailed a certain PO Box and printed it in one of those front pages with the copyright/ISBN/LoC info; took about 20 years for someone to redeem it.